"Shui Shui, what crazy thoughts are you having?" Xiaofei asked, tapping the tip of her nose playfully.

"Shui Shui, I loved you from the first time I set my eyes and I don't regret ever doing that. If I was given the opportunity to go back to the first time we met in the cafe, I would have still chosen to fall in love with you that day," Xiaofei said seriously.

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"And I would have also marked you as mine like I did that day," Shui Shui said, smiling when she recalled how naughty she was back then. She always smiled uncontrollably any time she recalled how she kissed Xiaofei in the parking lounge the second time they met in the restaurant. They just smiled while staring at each other.

"Qing Shui, I love you very much. I love you more than life itself, and I promise I will love you for eternity. May this moonlight be the witness of my promise to you," Xiaofei said, staring into her eyes with a burning gaze. Shui Shui was certain that his burning gaze could melt the iciest heart in this world.

"And I love you more, Jin Xiaofei. Words alone cannot express just how much I love you. Having you in my life is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me, and I will forever love and remain faithful to you alone. May this moonlight serve as a witness of my promise to you," Shui Shui said, staring affectionately into his eyes. Her face inched closer to his face as she spoke. Amid his burning passion, Xiaofei did not relent in kissing her passionately. He kissed her until she melted under his touch.

The two lovebirds stayed out late into the night. Xiaofei had no choice but to let her go when he recalled she had an early morning shoot the next day.

The next day after spending the morning with Yang Zi, Yifeng had to drop by at the Mansion because of an emergency. About thirty minutes after Yifeng reluctantly left the hospital room, Mrs Yang entered the room.

"Good afternoon mum," Yang Zi greeted, attempting to stand up to greet her.

"Sit back down. Your leg hasn't healed fully," Mrs Yang said, hurrying to the bed.

"Mum, why are you just like Feng? None of you believed it when I said that my leg has fully healed," Yang Zi said, sitting back on the bed just like her mum ordered her to do.

"We are acting this way because we know just how stubborn you are. We both know that you can do anything just to make sure that we are not worried. You won't hesitate to put your health at risk just to put our mind at ease that is why we are being so naggy so you can't blame us for being so overprotective of you," Mrs Yang said, dropping what she brought on the centre table.

"Mum, although Zi Er can be so naughty, she is very obedient," Yang Zi said, acting like a spoiled little child. She stretched and embraced her mum tightly.

"Yeah, you are my daughter, nobody needs to tell me just how naughty you are," Mrs Yang said playfully.

Seeing the cast on her left leg made her recall the night Su Jin called to inform her that Yang Zi was involved in an accident. With trembling hands and legs, she had rushed to the hospital without changing into a formal outfit.

After the surgery, Yang Zi was brought out of the operating room. Her heart had ached terribly at seeing her beloved daughter unconscious and covered in wounds.

"Mum, at least my naughtiness can't be compared to Mi Er. Although she is naughty, I love her so much," Yang Zi said, pulling out of her embrace.

"And she loves you even more. Do you believe she insisted on missing school just so she could come along with me to the hospital?" Mrs Yang said. She could not resist smiling when she recalled how Mi Er threw tantrums in the morning. She had difficulty persuading her to go to school.

"Despite visiting you yesterday, she insisted on visiting you in the morning, saying she missed you. I and Nanny had difficulty coaxing her into going to school," Mrs Yang said, staring at Yang Zi's smiling face.

"I missed her so much too," Yang Zi replied, still maintaining her smiling face. She stopped smiling when she saw how weird her mum was staring at her.

"Mum, what is wrong?" Yang Zi asked in a tone filled with so much concern.

"Nothing, I am just very glad that you are still alive. I am happy that you can still reply to all my words. Seeing you speak so beautifully and me not being the only one to talk endlessly gladdens my heart. My heart could burst from over happiness," Mrs Yang said, fighting back the urge to shed tears.

She understood the pain of having to be the one to do all the talking since that is what she has been whenever she visited her husband. For nine long years, she has talked, but she never received a response from him. This was one out of the many disadvantages for those who are dead.

You will always talk endlessly while all they do is listen to you talk. The thought that she will never get to speak with her darling daughter caused her unexplainable pain that night. Seeing her talk so beautifully made her realise the joy of merely listening to a person's voice brings.

"I am also glad that I get to see this beautiful face of yours every day," Yang Zi said, caressing her mum's face.

Nine years ago, they might have been mere strangers, but at the moment she loved her mum so much to the point that she can't function perfectly without her in her life. The years of staying together as a family made her become a better part of her life.

"Zi Er, after this incident occurred, I have been wondering about something very important," Mrs Yang said. Yang Zi could read the hesitant look on her face as she spoke.

"Curious about what? My marriage with Feng?" Yang Zi asked curiously.

"Have you ever thought of finding your real family?" Mrs Yang blurted out. Yang Zi's expression fell the moment her mum mentioned her biological family.